Animal rights becomes key issue in Japan’s general election

In its election campaign pledges, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party vows to crack down on irresponsible animal dealers and facilitate the adoptions of cats and dogs rescued after being abandoned by their original owners while seeking to reduce the number of euthanized pets to zero.

The main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan calls for increasing animal dealers’ responsibilities and enhancing penalties for abuse. It also pledges to craft legislation on animal welfare and establish a system for taking away pets from abusive owners.

Komeito, the coalition partner of the LDP, has proposed measures against animal hoarding and combining policies that cover social welfare and animal protection, such as helping the elderly coexist with pets. The party is also calling for the promotion of nurses for pets.

Group homes with pets have garnered attention as they apparently help heal residents while reducing the number of euthanized animals. Japan culled roughly 33,000 cats and dogs in fiscal 2019, according to the Environment Ministry.

The Japan Communist Party, a smaller opposition force, is seeking to create a consultation system for preventing animal hoarding as well as how to deal with pets during times of disaster.

Source: Animal rights becomes key issue in Japan’s general election

APO Group – Africa Newsroom / Press release | Madagascar: Severe Drought could Spur World’s First Climate Change Famine

More than one million people in southern Madagascar are struggling to get enough to eat, due to what could become the first famine caused by climate change, according to the World Food Programme (WFP)

The region has been hit hard by successive years of severe drought, forcing families in rural communities to resort to desperate measures just to survive.

Madagascar, the fourth largest island in the world, has a unique ecosystem which includes animals and plants found nowhere else on the planet. The country experiences a dry season, usually from May to October, and a rainy season that starts in November.

Source: APO Group – Africa Newsroom / Press release | Madagascar: Severe Drought could Spur World’s First Climate Change Famine

The Impact of Climate Change Demands Change

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There is no water to develop cities in some places anymore

Climate Change is causing people to feel insecure

When the river goes dry and people start worrying

We must change our ways before we all start crying

Climate catastrophes are not events we will see in the future, they are happening now

And it is best for us to take action by using the many ecofriendly tips somehow

We should try to send less waste to landfills so that there is less things there to burn

Eco-friendly tips are not hard to implement, we only need to be willing to learn

We can reduce the number of plastic water bottles we use in many ways

When we decide to have our reusable water bottles with us every day

When we purify our water at home we can save a lot

We should be looking at all the ecofriendly tips…

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Day 14/67, High School in Five Months, Our Numerals, and mass transit

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

We would have no transportation, public or otherwise, without a numbering system that allows us to calculate precise locations?  Decimal numbers, based on Arabic numerals, give us both precision and the ability, thanks to our positional numeral system, to express any number in fairly limited space (just try writing 10 billion in Roman Numerals!).  Our numbers, or rather, the symbols that we use to represent numbers, come from India via the Arabs, during the Middle Ages (“… up to the end of the fifteenth century“).  Any advocate for a democratic movement must both learn and share an understanding of number as system and statistic(s), for democracy to work well (there is also a need for good mass transit used by the middle classes, for a democracy to work well, but that is for another post, if you’d like):

Day14/67 Lesson Plan
Grammar online worksheets to choose from easy/medium/hard…

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Saguaro Sky

Michael Stephen Wills Photography

November is a special time for the ranges and basins of southern Arizona deserts. Climb a bajada of foothills, face west and wait for the sunset. That is what I did this day, November 3, 2005. East of Tucson the Saguaro National Monument at the foot of the Rincon Mountain Wilderness is where I parked, unpacked the photo gear and climbed the side of the Tanque Verde Ridge for a favorable view. Weather was pushing high level moisture from the west, clouds were developing.

You see here a shot from that session. In the distance, looking across Tanque Verde, are the Santa Catalina mountains. Months since the last rainfall, the giant Saguaros are using internal moisture reserves drawn up from a shallow root system, the flesh is less plump, the supporting structure of the ribs, always evident, are more pronounced. The last light catches these ribs in relief against a…

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Illegal gold mining on Brazil indigenous land up 500 % in a decade – The Nation —

Barbara Crane Navarro

Illegal gold mining on Brazil indigenous land up 500 % in decade – The Nation https://ift.tt/2WGcSCI Illegal mining on Brazil indigenous land up 500pc in decade  The Nation Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/2tI2HiE

Illegal mining on Brazil indigenous land up 500pc in decade – The Nation —

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